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The price of moral grandstanding on guns

Four years ago, the price of Smith & Wesson stock was $2.45. Last week it was $8.76, up 258 percent. Four years ago, the price of Sturm Ruger stock was $6.46. Last week it was $51.09, up 691 percent. The Wall Street Journal reports that even before “a $1.2 billion balloon payment for pensions comes due” in 2015, “Chicago’s pension funds, which are projected to run dry by the end of the decade, are scraping the bottoms of their barrels.”

Nevertheless, liberals are feeling good about themselves — the usual point of liberalism — because New York state’s public pension fund and California’s fund for teachers have, the New York Times says, “frozen or divested” gun holdings, and Calpers, the fund for other California public employees, may join this gesture jamboree this month. All this is being compared to the use of divestment to pressure South Africa to dismantle apartheid in the 1980s. Well.

Apartheid was a wicked practice. Guns are legal products in America, legally sold under federal, state and local regulations. Most of the guns sold to Americans are made by Americans. Americans have a right — a constitutional right — to own guns, and 47 percent of U.S. households exercise that portion of the Bill of Rights by possessing at least one firearm.

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The schadenfreude when all the financial incest comes crashing down… It will be glorious, with the only drawback being that my old man’s retirement is in STRS. Guess I’d better get cracking on a fat, independently earned paycheck of my own.

Apartheid was a response to the knowledge that without laws separating the races, Whites would be ethically cleansed from their land if they could not protect themselves from blacks. Rhodesia is a perfect example of this process, the ethic cleansing is nearly complete. Detroit which in the 1950′s was 80% White is now 95% black is another.

While it is popular to look down ones nose at Apartheid, we accept as normal “no-go” zones in our major cities (Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Birmingham, etc., when the population demographically flips to majority black and Whites MOVE AWAY, i.e. Physical Apartheid.

Here is an except from Venkatesh’s book “Gang Leader For a Day”:

In newspaper headlines, Robert Taylor was variously called “Congo Hilton,” “Hellhole,” and “Fatherless World” – and this was when it was still relatively new. By the end of the 1970s, it had gotten worse. As the more stable working families took advantage of civil-rights victories by moving into previously segregated areas of Chicago, the people left behind lived almost uniformly below the poverty line. A staggering 90 percent of the adults in Robert Taylor reported welfare – cash disbursements, food stamps, and Medicaid – as their sole form of support, and even into the 1990s that percentage would never get lower. There were just two social-service centers for nearly 20,000 children. The buildings themselves began to fall part, with at least a half dozen deaths caused by plunging elevators…And, most remarkably, law-enforcement officials deemed Robert Taylor too dangerous to patrol. The police were unwilling to provide protection until tenants curbed their criminality – and stopped hurling bottles or shooting guns out the windows whenever the police showed up.

Or Detroit Daily News:

Detroit’s population is now just over 700,000 – down 30 percent since 1990 – but the city still has to provide services to an area encompassing more land than San Francisco, Boston and the borough of Manhattan.

Signs of decline are everywhere – in a rising crime rate, streets without lights and block after block of abandoned buildings. The murder rate of one per 1,719 people last year was more than 11 times the rate in New York City. The jobless rate is above 18 percent, more than twice rate for the country as a whole.

Is Desiring to live separate from dysfunctional people deemed “racist”? Was it racist for the Jews to wish to flee Nazi Germany? Whites in the USA use euphemisms like “good schools” or “Low crime areas” to raise their children, meaning physical Apartheid.

Is Desiring to live separate from dysfunctional people deemed “racist”? Was it racist for the Jews to wish to flee Nazi Germany? Whites in the USA use euphemisms like “good schools” or “Low crime areas” to raise their children, meaning physical Apartheid.

Bulletchaser on February 2, 2013 at 3:27 PM

Which even hard-left libtards practice because they don’t want their children going to school with a bunch of unreformable, undisciplined products of the welfare system.

Liberals are just smart enough to avoid their own messes (in this case, not always) and flee when they can’t avoid them. They are not, however, smart enough not to make messes when they get the reigns of power.